Illinois Steel Co. v. O'Donnell
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Will county; the Hon. Dorrance Dibell,, Judge, presiding. This is a writ of error to the Appellate Court for the Second District, wherein the Illinois Steel Company is plaintiff in error, and James L. O’Donnell, assignee of Henry Fish & Sons, and others, are defendants in error.
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Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Will county; the Hon. Dorrance Dibell,, Judge, presiding. This is a writ of error to the Appellate Court for the Second District, wherein the Illinois Steel Company is plaintiff in error, and James L. O’Donnell, assignee of Henry Fish & Sons, and others, are defendants in error. This writ brings before the court the same record and decree that have been in part reviewed in the appeal of Blair v. Illinois Steel Co. The facts necessary to an understanding of the questions…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
The principal matters for consideration on this writ of error are the claims that the preference given by the insolvent Joliet Enterprise Company to Mary V. Pish was unlawful and invalid, and that the judgment for $176,420.96, rendered on the 30th day of November, 1892, against the Joliet Enterprise Company and in favor of Henry Fish & Sons, was and is illegal, and should be set aside as an unlawful preference.
On November 30; 1892, the Joliet Enterprise Company was .insolvent. At that time, and for some time prior thereto, it was indebted to Mary V. Pish in the sum of $15,000 for borrowed…
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